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Title: Early pregnancy


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Early pregnancy
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objectives
  • To recognise the necessary conditions to become
    pregnant
  • Define early pregnancy and unwanted pregnancy
  • To bring out the impact of early pregnancies in
    the community
  • To site the causes of early pregnancy
  • To identify the consequences of early pregnancies

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Definition of terms
  • Early pregnancy it is that type of pregnancy
    which occurs before the age of 18years and could
    cause a lot of problems. It can equally be
    unwanted.
  • Unwanted pregnancy it is an involuntary or
    unexpected pregnancy which could also cause a lot
    of problems

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Condition necessary to have a pregnancy
  • Presence of the female and male genital organ
  • When they both attain puberty
  • Unprotected sexual intercourse
  • When the girl is in her fertile period and the
    boy starts producing sperms containing matured
    spermatozoids.
  • When the ovule and the spermatozoid meet.
    (fecondation)

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The impact of early pregnancy in the community
  • Use statistics brought by the local doctor
  • 30 of adolescents aged from 16-17years era
    mothers today in Cameroon

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Causes of early pregnancies
  • Direct
  • Unprotected sexual intercourse
  • Indirect
  • Lack of information
  • Ignorance
  • Absence of sexual education in schools
  • Naivety
  • Curiosity
  • Search for luxury
  • Imitation
  • Poverty
  • Prostitution
  • Sexual vagabond
  • Parental pressure
  • Consummation of cocaine
  • Lack of family dialogue
  • rape

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • On the girl psychologically
  • Difficult delivery because the genital organs and
    immature and the womb is too small to contain the
    baby
  • Stitches
  • Fistula haemorrhage
  • Pre eclampsia oedemas, headache, high blood
    pressure
  • Caesarean operation
  • Retarded growth
  • STI,HIV/AIDS
  • Secondary sterility
  • Criminal abortion
  • Death

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • Educationally
  • - sudden school drop out
  • Socially
  • - Stigmatisation (rejection, isolation and lack
    of respect)
  • - Forceful marriage (lost of honour)
  • - Increases poverty, expenditure
  • - Creates other needs
  • - End in relationship

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • Psychologically
  • - Change in behaviour
  • - Frustration
  • - Inferiority complex
  • - Anxiety
  • - Sadness
  • - Rejection of the baby

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • On the boy
  • Risk of going to prison
  • Irresponsibility
  • Early fatherhood
  • Slow down of activities
  • Doubtful responsibility
  • Delinquency/stealing
  • Regrets
  • Forceful marriage

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • On the parents
  • Family disgrace
  • Division
  • Quarrel between father and mother
  • On the society
  • An increase in poverty
  • Slow down in development
  • Increase in school drop out for girls

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Consequences of early pregnancies
  • On the baby
  • - Malnutrition
  • - Retarded growth
  • - Bleak future
  • - Malformation
  • - Traumatism
  • - Still birth
  • - Mentally delay

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Conclusion
  • Abstinence
  • Protected sexual intercourse
  • Your experience
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